Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. — Prince William Copy Share Image
“What ambitious story could you turn your life into? You can’t start over. You have to use only what’s in the toolbox—and… — Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
“A world that confuses luxury with success, has absolutely zero understanding of the human condition. That's why they idolize rich and filthy… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It was never my ambition to watch myself in magnified close-ups on screen. — Saira Banu Copy Share Image
All our dreams are bound to come true, if we have courage to pursue them. It is our courage which gives wings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade. — Caroline Flack Copy Share Image
“Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical. — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system towards a presidential one. This is… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am shaped by my community - and I have been supported in my ambition to be an actor and storyteller. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Growth begins with looking at those things we desire most and finding the bliss in working towards them, not in achieving them. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't… — Eddie Arcaro Copy Share Image
The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Dreams and big ideas are plentiful, but few people have the courage to realise their ambitions. — Touker Suleyman Copy Share Image
What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed.… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image